State v. Carleton’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1993
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · Martin v. State · State v. Hoffses · McKown v. Powers · State v. Levesque
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the Hoffses case we laid down the rule as to the proper use of extrajudicial confessions within their limitations and adopted the principle which is generally recognized that extrajudicial confessions are competent evidence to corroborate the proof of corpus delicti and we held in that case that the evidence which will qualify an extrajudicial confession for admission in corroboration need not establish the corpus delicti beyond a reasonable doubt but is sufficient if, when considered therewith, it so satisfies the jury ‘that the offense was committed and that the defendant committed it.’ ” State v. Carleton et al., 148 Me. 237, at 240 , 92 A.2d 327, at 329 . “Corpus delicti is established if evidence, either circumstantial or direct, ■ demonstrates the probability that a crime has been committed.” State v. Tripp, 158 Me. 161, at 168 , 180 A.2d 601, at 604 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Millett“establish the corpus delicti to a probability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.